Deserialize to self

Question

Ok, I\'m probably just having an epic fail here, but my mind wants to say this should work.

Assume DataProtect.DecryptData takes an encrypted string as input and a d

Answer 1

No, this is not possible using a constructor, you can't reassign this.

Use a static method instead:

public static ArrivedDetails CreateFromString(string encrypted)
{
    return DataProtect.deserializeXML(DataProtect.DecryptData(encrypted));
}

Call it:

ArrivedDetails details = ArrivedDetails.CreateFromString(encrypted);